Friday, May 31, 2024

POWERS OF THE PAST

                                     In time's traverse, the past flows
                                 Like the flower from the bud to glow
                                   Like the seed from the tree to sow 
                                    Alive in the present it ever grows.
                                     
                                       The past grows in exuberance,         
                                  Like the cheers of love in the bower
                                Like the charms of beauty in the flower
                                   In traverse to spread its fragrance.
 
                                       The past is a store in freshness,
                                Like the cud, chewed in the teeth-grind,
                                   Like the memoirs to linger in mind
                                    It grows in taste for its sweetness.                                  
 
                                        The present enlivens the past,
                                  The undercurrent in flow to the future
                                   Green in sheen in its growing stature
                                        The past is eternity not to last.
 
                                      The future is the past's reflection,
                                    Like the nightingale's song in thrill
                                     Like the skylark's song in joy-fill,  
                                   To shine in kaleidoscopic refraction.
 
                                        The past is not the paradise lost,
                                   The paradise, regained in recollection,
                                    The heaven, rebuilt in reconstruction,
                                        It is the Truth of the living past.
 
                                        Time past, not past, lives forever
                                  Creeps into time present with concern
                                 Peeps into time future in eternal sojourn
                                     To build a co-relation by its power.


Published: Literary Vibes - Edition CXLI (31-May-2024)
https://positivevibes.today/article/newsview/544

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